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Physicians doing EMR - SMH

Posted: Mar 23, 2014

I have noticed my regular doctor's office using EMR and it is used by the nurses more or less with the point/click stuff, not too much "major typing" but still aggravating that I have to sit there while they input their data. BUT, I took my child to a specialist last week and the physician himself was using EMR and it wasn't such a user friendly point and click thing going on, he had to type SENTENCES at the time. These sentences he was typing were achieved by him using his two pointer fingers, because he obviously hadn't had any type of typing class in medical school. He would ask me a question about my child, then just become completely preoccupied, trying to enter in the information, typing what I said and would end up asking me the same thing over and over. Really, at the end of the visit I don't feel like he knew my child any more than he knew her before we entered the office, because like I said he was so preoccupied with that computer. Is this what the times have come to?

Did you tell him that? - NM

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Or offer to do the typing, for a salary? - Val

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I don't know if it's better or worse that he actually asked you a complicated question about your child and tried to document it vs. using drop down menus that provide minimal information.

At our office, the nurse or MOA documents the chief - complaint. Sm

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The past medical, surgical and social is already there; weust review it to make sure nothings changed. And for the drop down menu there is a comment section beside each complaint to elaborate if needed. We also document the vital signs. So by the time the physicians come in, that part is already done. Also, the medication list and allergies are already thee, we just review them and make changes if necessary. The she process takes about 10-15 min before the doctor enters the room. It really is a fairly smooth process.

Excuse the typos in my above post - nm

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Guess I should proofread.

More and more docs are hiring scribes - scribe

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just sayin

no scribes here...put MAs taking on the role of transcription - spots

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they double up the duties on the medical assistants and/or use Dragon Medical and leave the typos. as long as they are reimbursed they don't care about the typos. its all about the money. Nix the transcription salary and you've almost paid for the new EMR. Bye bye transcription. I'm waiting for the hospitals to do same.

My primary care physician does his own typing - into the EMR while the patient is in the room

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His office uses Epic

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